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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishunprovokedun‧pro‧voked /ˌʌnprəˈvəʊkt◂ $ -ˈvoʊkt◂/ adjective WRONG/UNJUSTIFIEDunprovoked anger, attacks etc are directed at someone who has not done anything to deserve them It was a totally unprovoked attack on an innocent man.
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unprovoked• Troops have been accused of unprovoked aggression against innocent civilians.• But if they were used only after proper training and in self-defence, how can that be construed as unprovoked aggression?• It was a totally unprovoked attack and in the end the police were prosecuted for assault.• The unprovoked attack has left the man critically ill in hospital.• A man died in an apparently unprovoked attack in central Oxford last night.• Any Rottweiler that makes an unprovoked attack on a human being should be destroyed.• Yildiz was killed on the streets of Glasgow last weekend in what is thought to have been an unprovoked racist attack.
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